Wednesday, July 12, 2006

I may be going to Hell on scholarship for laughing, but passages like this bring peals of out-loud laughter.

Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu, who are also priests, take their "fire pans" and offer incense to the Lord. But rather than the prescribed incense, they give God "alien fire." So, BOOM! God incinerates them on the spot. Moses, more like a Mafia boss than a prophet, tells Aaron his sons got what they deserve, then orders some cousins to drag the corpses away and drop them outside of camp.

If this guy had been my Sunday school teacher, I'd have paid much closer attention.